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The Pallas’s cat.

Manul, the ‘grumpiest cat,’ confirmed on the world’s highest mountain

Abhaya Raj Joshi 28 Mar 2023

India, Bangladesh could economically benefit from better management of shared waterways

Abu Siddique 5 Jan 2023
A Miniopterus phillipsi.

A newly described cave bat in Sri Lanka indicates presence of more species

Malaka Rodrigo 25 Nov 2022
A Royal Bengal tiger

[Interview] “South Asia needs its own regional plan to sustain Bengal tiger population”

Abhaya Raj Joshi 12 Oct 2022
Fishing on the Teesta River in Bangladesh

Experts call for more effective water sharing agreements between India and Bangladesh

Abu Siddique 27 Sep 2022
Sand mining in Bangladesh

Demand for sand in Bangladesh escalates illegal activities, threatens environment

Abu Siddique 22 Sep 2022
The coastal communities in Satkhira are heavily dependent on agriculture.

As stronger storms hit, farmers in Bangladesh struggle to pay agricultural loans

Maksuda Aziz 9 Sep 2022
A Sherpa with a yak at the base camp of Sagarmatha.

[Interview] “There are many Sherpas, not known to the outside world, who regularly summit the mountains”

Abhaya Raj Joshi 23 Aug 2022
Farmers plant paddy in Nepal.

Nepal’s rice farmers brace for loss following lack of timely rains and fertilisers

Abhaya Raj Joshi 17 Aug 2022
A protest by environmentalists in Colombo.

Environmental policy failures contributed to Sri Lanka’s people power revolution

Malaka Rodrigo 27 Jul 2022

Bangladesh Sundarbans communities face hardships following a resource hunting ban

Abu Siddique 14 Jul 2022

[Interview] More research about relationship between flash floods and climate change needed

Abu Siddique 7 Jul 2022

West Africa’s illegal online bird trade finds most buyers in South Asia

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 5 Jul 2022

Global illegal trade and farming flourish amid tiger conservation efforts

Sharon Guynup 17 Jun 2022

India has high proportion of priority areas for tree conservation and restoration, says study

Carolyn Cowan 23 May 2022
Tamil Nadu maintains that the neutrino observatory project and allied activities could impact the movement of tigers. Photo by Timothy A. Gonsalves/Wikimedia Commons.

Tiger movements between India and Nepal become increasingly restricted, even as numbers rise

Abhaya Raj Joshi, Sahana Ghosh 17 May 2022
Illegal logging in Sri Lanka.

Sri Lanka’s economic crisis will hit country’s environment and conservation hard, experts warn

Malaka Rodrigo 16 May 2022
Pangolins are able to swiftly roll up into ball-like posture when stressed or under threat.

[Interview] Priyan Perera: Shining a light on the little-studied Indian pangolins in Sri Lanka

Dilrukshi Handunnetti 28 Apr 2022
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Nepal’s first bird sanctuary could be a new attraction for Indian tourists

Abhaya Raj Joshi 1 Apr 2022

Sri Lanka growing as smuggling hub for star tortoises mainly collected in India

Malaka Rodrigo, Pragati Prava 28 Mar 2022